Note-taking
Overview
- Influence: Note-taking
- Domain: Student Learning Strategies
- Sub-Domain: Learning strategies
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to accelerate
- Influence Definition: This involves students making notes in a systematic manner. Such note-taking has been linked to increased engagement, more generative learning, and greater self-efficacy. Of note, this is not providing students with notes, or sharing them, but the student actually learning the skills of note-taking.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 6
- Number of studies: 155
- Number of students: 6,476
- Number of effects: 266
- Effect size: 0.51
Meta-Analyses
| Journal Title | Author | First Author's Country | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Journal of Education | Purdie & Hattie | Australia | The Relationship between Study Skills and Learning Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis | 1999 | Note taking | 40 | 0 | 40 | 0.44 |
| Unpublished Conference Paper | Henk & Stahl | USA | A meta-analysis of the effect of notetaking on learning from lecture | 1985 | Note taking | 21 | 0 | 25 | 0.34 |
| Contemporary Educational Psychology | Kobayashi | Japan | What limits the encoding effect of note-taking?: a meta-analytic examination | 2005 | Effects of note taking | 57 | 0 | 131 | 0.22 |
| Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness | Reed, Rimel, & Halet | USA | Note-taking interventions for college students: A synthesis and meta-analysis of the literature | 2016 | Note taking | 10 | 1,801 | 28 | 0.54 |
| International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education | Larwin & Larwin | USA | The impact of guided notes on post-secondary student achievement: A meta-analysis. | 2013 | Guided notes | 12 | 1,529 | 27 | 0.55 |
| Educational Psychology Review | Larwin, Gorman & Larwin | Assessing the Impact of Testing Aids on Post-Secondary Student Performance: A Meta-Analytic Investigation. | 2013 | Testing aids (notes, crib sheets, text books) | 15 | 3,146 | 15 | 0.99 | |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 155 | 6,476 | 266 | 0.51 | |||||
Confidence
The Confidence is the average of these four measures, each divided into five approximately equal groups and assigned a value from 1 to 5 based on the following criteria:
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Number of Meta-analyses
- 1 = 1
- 2 = 2–3
- 3 = 4–6
- 4 = 7–9
- 5 = 10+
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Number of Studies
- 1 = 1–10
- 2 = 11–50
- 3 = 51–200
- 4 = 201–400
- 5 = 400+
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Number of Students
- 1 = 1–2,500
- 2 = 2,501–10,000
- 3 = 10,000–20,000
- 4 = 20,000–100,000
- 5 = 100,001+
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Number of Effects
- 1 = 1–100
- 2 = 101–300
- 3 = 301–600
- 4 = 601–1,200
- 5 = 1,200+
| Number of Meta-Analyses | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Overall Confidence | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Confidence Factor | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 |